memoir
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The memoir of a former New York City subway motorman details his hazardous workdays below the streets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
He described summiting Everest and his life beyond that in his memoir, A Life on the Edge.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
In his newly released memoir, Galaxy great Landon Donovan recounts his troubled relationship with his father and how he overcame crippling depression.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026
On Tuesday it was announced that Vance would be releasing “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” a memoir about his conversion to Catholicism.
From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026
The prison’s most famous warden, Lewis Lawes, called his memoir Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing—the number referred to the sum of the length of sentences of all the inmates under his supervision.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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